4 People hacked to death

Two people are in police custody after they
allegedly hacked four people to death in separate incidents in
Mayflower, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.

Captain Leonard
Hlathi said in the first incident, a 35-year-old man handed himself over
to the police on Sunday after he allegedly hacked his neighbour with an
axe in a street last Tuesday.

The neighbour was walking in the
street when she came across the man who allegedly asked her what she
wanted from him before attacking her and leaving her head split into two
and her brains scattered on the street.

The man is expected to
appear in the Mayflower Periodical Court on Monday and was allegedly
intending to confess to a charge of murder.

In the other
incident, Boy Duba, 21, who was taken to Weskoppies for mental
evaluation in 2009 after he allegedly went on a rampage with an axe and
hacked three people to death, is back in police custody.

One of his alleged victims from the incident on March
22 last year was a three-month-old baby. Nine other people, who also
included a police officer assigned to arrest him, were also wounded
during the incident.

Duba will also appear in the Mayflower
Periodical Court on Wednesday on three counts of murder and nine of
attempted murder.

Meanwhile, an alleged house robber was also
hacked in his head with an axe on Sunday, but he survived. The
30-year-old armed man allegedly entered a house with the intention to
rob it.

He allegedly held up a woman at gunpoint inside the house
and did not notice her husband escape through a window to alert their
neighbours.

When the husband returned to the house with
neighbours he struck the alleged robber in the head from behind. The
wounded man is expected to appear in court soon after he recovers from
his injuries.
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